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JAMES BRIAN HUDIS
Lieutenant (junior grade) · U.S. Navy
January 31, 1941 – October 26, 1966
Service recordJames Brian Hudis, of Brookfield, Wisconsin, served as a Lieutenant (junior grade) in the U.S. Navy. He died on October 26, 1966, in North Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 11E, Line 111 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 11E · Line 111
Names are inscribed in the order of loss, starting at Panel 1E at the apex and ending at Panel 1W. At the Memorial, find the panel number at the base and count down from the top line.
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Navy
- Rank
- Lieutenant (junior grade) (LTJG)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Url No Warfare Specialty (1105)
- Unit (as recorded)
- USS ORISKANY CVA 34
- Born
- January 31, 1941
- Home of record
- Brookfield, Wisconsin (Waukesha County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 26, 1966
- Age
- 25
- Country
- North Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Drowning
Context · from the records
What was happening
54 names on the Wall carry the date October 26, 1966. In October 1966, 516 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “USS ORISKANY CVA 34”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
He died in North Vietnam while Operation Rolling Thunder was under way. Operation Rolling Thunder (March 1965–November 1968) was the sustained U.S. bombing campaign against North Vietnam, flown by Air Force fighter-bombers from Thailand and Navy aircraft from carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin against some of the densest air defenses in the world.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 11E, Line 111
- CHARLES THOMAS HAFENDORFERCaptain · May 19, 1966
- JACK HAROLD HARRISCommander · October 26, 1966
- GREG EUGENE HARTAirman Apprentice · October 26, 1966
- LLOYD PATTERSON HYDELieutenant · October 26, 1966
- CLYDE RAY WELCHCommander · October 26, 1966
Same unit, same day
- ALVIN MARION SHIFFLETT JRPetty Officer Third Class · Panel 11E, Line 115
From Brookfield
- WILLIAM ROBERT GLUECKSTEINHospitalman · January 29, 1966
- HOWARD V MATSON JRLance Corporal · December 4, 1966
- ROBERT JAMES MANNSpecialist Four · January 8, 1967
- THOMAS ARTHUR GERGPrivate First Class · January 12, 1967
- JOHN PAUL VISPrivate First Class · September 18, 1967
- RICHARD WILLIAM STEINSpecialist Four · October 26, 1967
- WILLIAM EDWIN PIERSONLance Corporal · December 15, 1967
- DONALD ALAN KIRKHAMHospitalman · February 1, 1968
- JAMES GEORGE ZEIMETWarrant Officer 1 · September 4, 1968
- LANCE ALLEN ROBINSONCorporal · March 23, 1971
Source. U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Casualty Analysis System, Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File (as of April 29, 2008), Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Record Group 330, National Archives (NAID 2240992). Panel and line as recorded in that file. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.